:A Term of Endearment

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

I Swear There Were Two

I do understand why we only get to see the one but I needed a title...

The color is off but it's winter and y'all know.

The Goose Girl Hand Tulips were the German mitt pattern I knit last month. I had some translating help from the younger of the McGuire Boys. I still sort of wonder about the 'hand tulips' part but whatever.

Frankly, after a weekend of looking at a German knitting pattern, 'hand tulips' did sort of make sense. Yes, this was the point where I needed to stop with the German patterns. I'm a Latin based sort of girl. When the German starts making sense, it's time for a break.

I changed the pattern. I sort of had to. I hated the idea of cables on both sides. I also couldn't make the thumb gusset look good enough. The buttons are purely decorative. I skipped the bi-color business and did not do the crochet edging because I liked the cast on edge as it was. Plus I think you only really need it if you are doing the bi-color thing and that wasn't what I wanted for this pair of mitts.

Love the pattern. Love the designer. She seems really sweet and lovely. Plus she's got some wonderful looking sock patterns that I will be getting to at some point. This summer most likely. Although, I did do the sock version of these mitts already...

The pattern looks challenging, but I do love how yours turned out. I am always impressed that you can see past the original design (which I found a tad fussy looking). Love them, but I think our Joan needs mittens and gloves right now. Of course, she's from hardy stock so I might be wrong;-P And, Guten Morgen.

I don't like textured palms on mitts, either; I would have done the same thing. I can't help but 'improve' patterns by substituting a preferred thumb gore or short row heel instead of following directions like a good girl. Guess its the rebel in me!

Actually, the pattern name has nothing to do with tulips. "Handstulpen" consists of 2 words "Hand" + "Stulpen" which mean hand + gaiters, whereas tulips would be "Tulpen" without the s at the beginning.

The mitts look really good! Am anxious to see the socks. For some reason the pattern makes me smile. I think it's the colors and the button...
If this is Ten Minutes on Tuesday then I'm running behind yet again... /sigh
xoxo

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